Its what gamers and people who download movies want. Its not what the country needs.

Sorry fucking WHAT? The NBN will revolutionise Health care and education. Business will want to move to Australia. You are clueless if you think only gamers want it. With such a big country and so little people the NBN will change everything about Australia.

Sorry fucking WHAT? The NBN will revolutionise Health care and education. Business will want to move to Australia. You are clueless if you think only gamers want it. With such a big country and so little people the NBN will change everything about Australia.

Just ignore him, that's the same tripe that was posted by Liberal supporters on Facebook etc. pre-election because they can't comprehend that technology is the way forward, especially when manufacturing is closing down left and right. Australia has always been filled with very conservative people that have no interest in looking too far forward, just the way it goes.

Until people start voting with their wallets, this simply will not change. Blizzard knows they don't have to. They are extremely unlikely to get any benefit out of implementing Oceanic servers. They won't magically gain more subscribers to help offset the costs. They know we will continue to pay to play with that status quo. They 'could' pay to set up the infrastructure, but for what benefit ?

Unfortunately, on the rare occasion that a local server has been implemented (looking at Swtor and Warhammer), it has not been supported with enough players, and the servers get shut down.

"Video games only exist, so that idiots have something to be good at" - Joe Hildebrand

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3360243599
70$ a month Telstra Cable Ultimate. For some reason mine seems to be cheaper than people who get slower speeds than me. I know a few people in my area who have the same deal. Might just be cheaper in Perth =/

This point is invalid without any proof that your presented statistics have any merit. Please provide your source next time when making such a bold claim. Oceanic servers are for the oceanic population, not the SEA population which I believe get their own servers.

Oh btw SWTOR and Warhammer servers were empty because barely anyone in Australia played/plays those games.

Sorry if i wasnt clear on my post. Fine its not 50% but all im saying is that if you look at oceanic guild listing on wowprogress a percentage of the guilds are SEA based guilds from SG MY HK PH. And most of those oceania guilds have a few SEA based players. Putting oceanic servers on australia would just divide players on oceanic servers because of latency issues.

And you clearly did not play swtor when oceanic servers was opened. It was more packed than the most populated oceanic server shrine.

If it's even remotely like LoL or DotA 2, a lack of oceanic servers is going to be a serious issue for Heroes of the Storm. I'd like to think that it will be the tipping point that makes them reconsider servers here.

As for WoW, I would like to see Oceanic servers finally happen, Logistically, it shouldn't be so difficult; just shift the content of the current faux-Oceanic servers to Australian or Oceanic-hosted servers. Yeah, some Americans playing on those servers for whatever reason might feel a bit put out, but they'll only have to deal with what the entire Oceanic playerbase already had to deal with. They can suck up their 200-300 ping if the other 99% get a sub-100 ping out of it.

Sorry if i wasnt clear on my post. Fine its not 50% but all im saying is that if you look at oceanic guild listing on wowprogress a percentage of the guilds are SEA based guilds from SG MY HK PH. And most of those oceania guilds have a few SEA based players. Putting oceanic servers on australia would just divide players on oceanic servers because of latency issues.

And you clearly did not play swtor when oceanic servers was opened. It was more packed than the most populated oceanic server shrine.

I think you will find that the problem (even if there was one) can be solved by merging servers like barthilas and frostmourne. Also SWTOR was popular when the servers were first open, I remember. I did play it. But quickly it died down because it was not very good.

Sorry fucking WHAT? The NBN will revolutionise Health care and education. Business will want to move to Australia. You are clueless if you think only gamers want it. With such a big country and so little people the NBN will change everything about Australia.

Oh, in that case Ill just let the Health and Education departments know that its ok theyre getting funding slashed, the internet will make things better.

Id wager that half the schools dont even have computers that work 50% of the time, let alone be able to take advantage of faster speeds.